I'm a masochist, too. ^_^; Seriously though, I've always been attracted to whips and cha-...

But that's not what you're talking about, so we'll save that for another day. I think that it's probably something more along the lines of the fact that despite there being something bad going down, you still like "him" (as a friend or what ever), and still want to be around him. We're kind of like lemings that way. We can't stop running down a bad path even when we see other people failing. And that whole running into a brick wall thing, also true.

Being supportive and happy gets annoying sometimes, but then I know that I start being mean, so I try not to think about it. Good luck.